Today we met up with Sybil (aka Ruthie - or maybe it should be the other way around as her real name is Sybil but Fiona and I think she is a Ruthie) and her daughter Julia who are the other friends I made in China in 2007. We wanted Kiki to come to lunch too but she is really shy and just didn't want to go. The best I could get out of her when I asked her to come with us was "I don't know."
Which was an improvement on no.
Anyway she didn't so Fiona and I met them in Chinatown (very fitting we thought) for lunch and then walked around talking and went to a huge popular Asian shop. We were reminiscing about China and wishing that our friend Ingrid from Holland was there too. We decided to buy her a gift to send so she knew we were thinking of her. I looked up my diary to see if I knew what year she was born so we could get something for that (I am year of the Rat - doesn't sound so great does it?) and realised that it was her birthday today.
A lot of people would just pass that off as a coincidence. But how rare a coincidence that the first time in two years that Fiona, Ruthie, Julia and I have been together and it was Ingrid's birthday (the only one of us not there)???
We all think it means something.
Not sure what.
But something.
So we had lots of fun shopping for Ingrid and then went back to Fiona's so Ruthie and Julia could meet Kiki and her husband Bob.
Then Ruthie, Julia and I drove to there home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey where I met her other daughter Rose and her husband Mike.
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